Bridlington residents asked to be patient with vaccine roll-out
People in Bridlington are being asked to be patient with the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.
People in Bridlington are being asked to be patient with the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.
It comes from the town's Primary Care Network, which consists of all six GP practices.
It is reassuring people that the jab is safe and everyone will eventually be vaccinated but there are priority groups first.
Dr Zoe Norris, the PCN's Clinical Director, said:
"The vaccination programme means that by the time we get into the New Year, we will be starting to vaccinate the most vulnerable of Bridlington's residents. Although it will be some time before we get through everybody, we would ask that people make sure that their GP surgeries has up-to-date contact details for them.
"Remember that there's a really complex system in place to ensure that everyone who needs to gets the vaccination. Some people will be going up to hospital to have it for various reasons, other people will be offered in the GP surgeries and some people will be offered it in community pharmacies.
"Please, please do wait to be contacted and also remember that when you contacted, it's really important that wherever possible, people do come to the vaccination site to have the vaccination. It's incredibly difficult for us to get out to people's houses unless they genuinely bed bound.
"Please, please do be patient and please do be kind. Everyone working in health and social care and key workers are all really tired. It's been a really challenging time and we are trying to deliver this massive vaccination programme on top of our usual work."
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation decide on which groups get priority first of the vaccine such as health and social care workers and those over 80 years-old.
Dr Norris added:
"They've set the priority list looking at those people who most at risk from Covid infection; and that's to do with complications, to do with hospital admissions and to do with death. Those are the groups that are most likely to have poor outcomes either because of their age or because of the number of times they're potentially being exposed to coronavirus."
Dr Norris has this reassurance about the speed in which the vaccine was approved:
"All that's happened with these vaccines that are different with the other ones is that because of the amount of funding that's been able to be thrown into them everything's been able to be done much, much faster. Whereas normally things like overtime and some of the technology that's been needed, it would take a number of years."